Jean Piaget viewed that children develop intellectually including informal experiences within the environment. Children’s interactions with the environment are needed to provide intellectual challenges for the their development to take place. Piaget had spent years in researching the ways in which children seem to move forward and develop in terms of their use of ability to use knowledge and how they would process and organise information. Piaget was more interested in the development of their ability of:
Thinking logically
Reasoning
Solving problems
His approach was to the study of children was also nomothetic. He was not concerned about what was unique or special about each child he had come across with, he was mainly interested in what was common to all children at a certain age which is where he development the theory of cognitive develop
